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pastusza
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Jan 3, 2011, 01:13 AM
 
Ok, call me old school, but the death of usenet, and the proliferation of vBulletin and phpBB forums is a tad annoying.

With UseNet, you simply connected to ONE server and subscribed to the groups you wanted. One client. One list of groups.

With web forums, I have to log in to 10 different sites to see what I have posted, which is time consuming and annoying.

Has anyone created a native Mac or Windows app that can log in to multiple online web forums and let you read all the content of these forums from one client?
     
turtle777
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Jan 3, 2011, 02:54 AM
 
Old School.

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besson3c
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Jan 3, 2011, 03:19 AM
 
The closest you could get to that is RSS, as it is the only format that would support being a functional format for encapsulating the content of threads on a forum. However, there would be no easy way to do stuff like quick reply, mark threads as read, etc.
     
   
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